Happy New Year, Essential Arts readers! 2025 is already shaping up to be a feast of a year in terms of arts and culture in Southern California, and we here at The Times are ready to eat up. Here are ...

The new year’s highlights include the premiere of Anthony Davis’ children’s opera, soprano Susan Narucki, a Bach choral mass ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.

Despite grant withdrawals, local music-presenting groups surged ahead with new seasons, new work and new partnerships.

New Delhi, Jun 21 (PTI) To steal away from the mad rush of an overstimulated life into the comfort of a living room where time flows in a trickle and the air is filled with classical ragas is like ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...